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Author contributions
RL, ZS, and YS created the stories and the drawings. RL, CY,
and ZS created the gures. RL, CY, YS, and ZS wrote the
manuscript. All authors contributed to the article and approved
the submitted version.
Funding
e research has been partly supported by the Kyoto Design
Lab Researcher in Residence program.
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the organizers of Data Art for Climate
Action conference for holding the associated exhibition where the
works were shown.
Conflict of interest
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